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[jacquelline]

Sorry if i did not post in the right area..

Hello to everyone! I'm having a problem updating my grafic card to the newer version. I have an amd rog rx 480 (whitch i'm verry happy and proud of it ) and when i go to the app and check for updates it says that i'm up to date....i unninstaled it and then i instaled the 24Q update and i tried to update it again and it says that no updates. And then i saw that on the website the last update is 24.8.1 and mine is 24.3.1....what am i missing???? does amd not supporting my rx480 anymore ? I've searched online for answers and i can't find anything that would help. Can anyone help? Please.

PS ...Sorry for my bad english!

[BigAl01]

The RX 480 and even the 500 series are only seeing periodic Adrenalin driver updates.  I believe the latest one for your RX 480 is the 24.3.1 version.  You can check this on the AMD site for downloading drivers.  Installing a newer driver may get you into a situation where your RX 480 starts to fail; I would only update to the AMD recommended version(s) in the future.

[jacquelline]

I was using only the recommended versions of AMD. And when AMD realesed a new update i was poped with the notification " a new update is available" or something like that form the app. Now nothing....and i belive the last update is 24.10.1 or something like that. And in some newer games of 2024 when i want to play fir the first time i get the message that i need to update my driver...but after that the game is working fine ....for example GOW Ragnarok....

[elstaci · Accepted solution]

I have tagged this thread where I uploaded two articles that explains what "Limited Support" means by AMD concerning the Polaris & Vega (RX 400, 500, 600, & Vega GPUs): https://community.amd.com/t5/pc-drivers-software/rx580-24-8-1-driver-automatically-downgrades-to-24-...

Part of the article in the above link:

. In recent weeks the company dropped support for those GPU architectures in their open source Vulkan Linux driver, AMDVLK, and now we have confirmation that the company is slowly winding down support for these architectures in their Windows drivers as well.

Under AMD’s extended driver support schedule for Polaris and Vega, the drivers for these architectures will no longer be kept at feature parity with the RDNA architectures. And while AMD will continue to support Polaris and Vega for some time to come, that support is being reduced to security updates and “functionality updates as available.”

For AMD users keeping a close eye on their driver releases, they’ll likely recognize that AMD already began this process back in September – though AMD hasn’t officially documented the change until now. As of AMD’s September Adrenaline 23.9 driver series, AMD split up the RDNA and GCN driver packages, and with that they have also split the driver branches between the two architectures. As a result, only RDNA cards are receiving new features and updates as part of AMD’s mainline driver branch (currently 23.20), while the GCN cards have been parked on a maintenance driver branch – 23.19.

At present, AMD has not published anything about this change in driver support to their website. But, responding to a request for a comment on Windows driver support from AnandTech, the company provided the following statement:

The AMD Polaris and Vega graphics architectures are mature, stable and performant and don’t benefit as much from regular software tuning.  Going forward, AMD is providing critical updates for Polaris- and Vega-based products via a separate driver package, including important security and functionality updates as available.  The committed support is greater than for products AMD categorizes as legacy, and gamers can still enjoy their favorite games on Polaris and Vega-based products.

[retro_player82734]

They release 24.7 version for polaris vega gpu and i download this package and install. But this driver got some problems, so amd delete this version for polaris vega. Now latest driver is 24.3.1. With 24.3.1 driver my gigabyte rx560 gaming oc 2GB detected in my system as ASUS RX560. So i create post about my issue "https://community.amd.com/t5/general-discussions/gigabyte-rx560-driver-problem/m-p/713564#M4306"